On the other side.
Su Ruanruan was currently engaged in a life-or-death battle with the tool known as “chopsticks.”
It was easy enough to poke holes in the fried egg on the plate—one stab and there was a hole.
But trying to properly “pick up” the meat from the plate…
Su Ruanruan’s two delicate white fingers gripped the wooden sticks so tightly that her knuckles were turning pale.
Yet the two chopsticks seemed to be fighting each other, slippery and completely out of control.
She finally managed to lift a piece of bacon, but the melted cheese stretched into a long strand and ended up smeared all over the wood.
“Mmm—!!”
After several failed attempts to get it into her mouth, Su Ruanruan slammed the chopsticks down with a frustrated clack.
Her fair cheeks flushed bright red.
“The tableware here is so weird! I can’t eat at all!”
Seeing her flustered and exasperated expression, Hoshino Haruka’s hand holding the glass paused for a moment.
She had been so quick when snatching the fried egg off her chopsticks earlier, yet now she couldn’t even eat properly with two wooden sticks.
Hoshino Haruka swallowed.
“…If you really don’t know how to use them.”
Hoshino Haruka heard her own voice become unusually low.
“Would you like me to feed you?”
“Can you?!”
Su Ruanruan’s eyes lit up instantly.
She picked up her plate, scooted right over, and squeezed into the seat beside Hoshino Haruka.
Their thighs pressed tightly together.
Su Ruanruan lifted her unguarded, delicate little face, her rosy lips parting slightly.
“Ah—”
Hoshino Haruka took a deep breath.
A strange, uncontrollable numbness crept silently along her nerves from where their thighs touched.
She picked up the chopsticks, grabbed a piece of butter-soaked toast and bacon, carefully wrapped it with cheese, and slowly brought it to those slightly parted red lips.
“Aaah!”
Su Ruanruan bit down without hesitation.
Her soft, lively pink tongue peeked out between chews, and at one point, it even accidentally licked the knuckles of Hoshino Haruka’s fingers holding the chopsticks, leaving them wet.
The rich aroma of meat and dairy made the little cat girl happily narrow her eyes.
A loud, cat-like purr rumbled from her throat.
“So good! More!”
She urged indistinctly, a bit of golden egg yolk dripping from the corner of her mouth.
It slid down her fair chin, about to fall.
Hoshino Haruka watched her quietly.
Watching this little creature sitting obediently beside her, wearing an oversized loungewear that looked loose on her, eating the food she fed her without any guard.
That extremely strange feeling surged up again, instantly engulfing Hoshino Haruka.
She reached out with her thumb.
The pad of her finger, slightly rough with thin calluses, gently wiped the residue from the corner of Su Ruanruan’s delicate lips.
As her fingertip withdrew, it uncontrollably pressed lightly against that soft lower lip.
Then, out of Su Ruanruan’s sight as she chewed intently.
Hoshino Haruka brought her thumb, which was stained with a bit of egg yolk and saliva, secretly to her own mouth.
“Good.”
Hoshino Haruka’s dark gaze locked firmly on Su Ruanruan’s face as her tongue gently licked her thumb clean.
Maybe I should just do it.
Lock her up, raise her, control everything about her.
No one would ever know anyway.
Once the thought emerged, it spread like ink in water, instantly blackening all of Hoshino Haruka’s thoughts.
She looked at the clueless little girl in front of her and her mind began spinning wildly:
She could start by double-locking the security door and confiscating the keys.
All she had to do was make up some lie like “there are man-eating monsters outside,” and she could legitimately keep her locked inside forever.
She would buy a slender chain just long enough to lock around those fair, slender ankles.
Fix her to the head of the bed.
Every day, she would only be allowed to eat food fed directly from her own hand.
So good, so good, so good, so good, so good, so good.
Admit it, Haruka.
You’re a hopeless pervert at heart, a perverted woman getting turned on by a cat-eared loli.
Hoshino Haruka felt her throat going unbearably dry.
She didn’t want to resist anymore. She just wanted to surrender to this inexplicably boiling impulse inside her.
Her hand slowly rose, her fingertips trembling slightly as she reached for Su Ruanruan’s extremely slender and fragile nape—
Ring ring ring ring—!!
The shrill alarm clock blared like a thunderclap in the living room.
“!”
Hoshino Haruka jolted violently.
The hand hovering in mid-air snapped back as if struck by high-voltage electricity.
Cold sweat instantly soaked her back.
Oh god.
What the hell was I thinking just now?!
Hoshino Haruka stared at her own hands in horror, then looked at Su Ruanruan, who was still happily chewing on bacon without a care.
Chains? Imprisonment? Hand-feeding?
How could I have such thoughts?!
She was just a pitiful cat girl with no home, who had been abused and bullied.
And here she was seriously considering tying her to the bed?!
Intense self-loathing and guilt swallowed Hoshino Haruka whole.
To cover up her nearly enacted crazy idea, she grabbed the chopsticks and frantically stuffed the remaining fried egg on the plate into her mouth, swallowing it hard without even chewing properly.
“Um…”
Hoshino Haruka suddenly stood up, even knocking over the chair behind her.
She grabbed her school bag from the entryway cabinet, her eyes dodging everywhere, not daring to look at Su Ruanruan even once.
“I have to go to school!”
“Stay home by yourself and don’t run around. If you get bored…”
She spoke extremely fast and pointed toward the end of the hallway.
“You can go into my room and read some books or whatever!”
But at this moment, Su Ruanruan had no idea what kind of terrifying internal battle Hoshino Haruka had just gone through, nor did she know she had almost been chained to the bed.
She was gripping the edge of the plate tightly with both hands.
Her mouth was stuffed full, her fair cheeks puffed out like a hamster hoarding food.
Hearing Hoshino Haruka’s words, she didn’t even have time to lift her head.
She simply struggled to free her right hand, raised it next to her white cat ears, and made a very perfunctory oily “OK” gesture.
“…”
Seeing this adorably foolish sight, Hoshino Haruka felt her guilt grow even heavier.
To think she could have such thoughts toward such a defenseless little idiot.
I’m beyond saving.
Haruka, you really are a hopeless pervert.
She cursed herself harshly in her heart and fled in panic, pushing open the door and rushing out as if escaping for her life.
Click.
The security door locked, and the house fell completely silent.
“Phew—!”
More than ten minutes later.
Su Ruanruan licked the plate clean of the last scraps of food and let out a satisfied burp.
She flopped backward, collapsing onto the carpet on her back with a plop, like a melted cat pancake.
“I’m alive again…”
Su Ruanruan stroked her now-round little belly with her small hand, her eyes narrowing contentedly.
She had to admit, this human called Hoshino Haruka was really good at cooking.
Thinking back to how she had been caught by the scruff of her neck this morning while trying to steal food, Su Ruanruan had actually been scared out of her mind at the time.
She had been a bit dazed from the series of events.
But now that she was full and satisfied, her intelligence had returned to the throne.
She keenly realized one fact—
When they had been so close earlier, this human named Hoshino Haruka didn’t have even the slightest trace of mana fluctuations on her!
In fact, she was just an ordinary person with no strength at all!
“Hehehe~”
The cat ears on Su Ruanruan’s head perked up proudly.
Her fair legs swung happily on the carpet.
In that case.
Once the great Lord Su Ruanruan recovered a bit of her magic power, she would reluctantly “reward” her.
She would reluctantly take her in as her familiar!
By then, Hoshino Haruka would have to kneel on the ground and worship her every day, offering up the money of this world.
Most importantly—she would have to cook delicious food and hand-feed her every day, just like earlier!
Oh right!
Next time she would order her to make strawberry cake, or buy a big one from outside!
One of those super-sized cakes with three layers, covered in cream and fruit!
Just as Su Ruanruan was immersed in the wonderful fantasy of “Hoshino Haruka obeying her every whim and completely becoming her slave,” and was even about to pinch her voice to let out a few villainous “Hehehe” laughs—
“Help… help me…”
An extremely weak, intermittent cry for help suddenly reached her sensitive cat ears.
“Hm?”
Su Ruanruan’s laughter caught in her throat.
She sprang up from the carpet like she had springs.
Her ears on top of her head spun around quickly like radar.
She hadn’t misheard.
The source of the sound… seemed to be coming from Hoshino Haruka’s room?
Premium Chapter
Login to buy access to this Chapter.